BARCELONA—LG shouldn’t be shy about its perfectly decent, reliable midrange phones. While its big press event yesterday was all about the LG V30S+ ThinQ, a bunch of camera modes disguised as a new flagship phone, the LG K10 looks like it will bring the masses an all-metal body and fun, wide-angle selfie camera.

We found the K10 and its little sibling, the K8, on LG’s stand at Mobile World Congress here, and spent a bit of time with them.

They’re nothing shocking. The K10 is a black metal slab with a cool, brushed-metal back and a front that steadily refuses to acknowledge the current bezel-reduction trend. It runs Android 7.1.2, which is disappointing, but at least it’s relatively recent. The 5.3-inch, 720p screen is bright and clear. The phone felt a little wide in my hand, but I’ve been handling a lotof super-narrow, bezel-free flagship phones at the show.

The K10’s big trick is a wide-angle selfie camera mode. The 8-megapixel shooter did well in indoor light. Hit a button, and it takes a 5-megapixel, wide-angle image for group selfies, with the attendant fish-eye effect. There isn’t a second front-facing camera; this is a software mode, but it works to good effect.

I was a little less thrilled with the 13MP main camera, which had some blur issues in the indoor hall lighting. When I checked my shots, the sharp front-facing photo and the main camera shot were at 1/33 second; there was a lot more motion in the main camera shot.

The phone comes in 16GB and 32GB models, with 2GB and 3GB of RAM, respectively. There’s a 3,000mAh battery, the LG fingerprint sensor in its usual place on the back, and—of course—a headphone jack. It runs decently on a Mediatek MT6750 processor. Bluetooth is the older version 4.2, and the phone is powered by MicroUSB. So yeah, much of it is a flashback to 2015, but a 2015 smartphone with a wide-angle selfie camera will still please a lot of entry-level consumers. LG hasn’t announced US availability of the K10 yet.

The K8, on the other hand, feels disappointingly cheap, like an Alcatel Tracfone. It has a 5-inch, 1,280-by-720 screen, 8-megapixel and 5-megapixel cameras, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of ROM, and a 2500mAh battery. This one also has a Mediatek processor, although LG didn’t say which model.

The problem is, the K8’s build just feels cheap. The plastic back allows for a removable battery, but it feels flimsy. The screen also appears to be lower quality than the K10; it should be denser and just as pretty, but it just didn’t look that way in real life. I suspect LG may skip the US with the K8, leaving the K10 to be picked up as an affordable phone by the likes of Boost, MetroPCS, and Tracfone.